Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
Interpretation
Make the most of your youth to create fond memories for the future.
This quote emphasizes the importance of utilizing the vibrancy and potential of youth to establish joyful experiences that will be cherished later in life. It highlights the fleeting nature of youth and encourages proactive engagement in lifeβs opportunities, ensuring that when one grows older, they can reflect back on their youth with happiness rather than regret.
In practice
In a graduation speech about making the most of opportunities.
Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams:_x000D_ _x000D_ The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;_x000D_ _x000D_ So, when affection yields discourse, it seems_x000D_ _x000D_ The bottom is but shallow whence they come._x000D_ _x000D_ They that are rich in words, in words discover
Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.
Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.
If she undervalues me, _x000D_ _x000D_ What care I how fair she be?
If all the world and love were young,_x000D_ _x000D_ And truth in every shepherd's tongue,_x000D_ _x000D_ These pretty pleasures might me move_x000D_ _x000D_ To live with thee, and be thy love.
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
Had our hearts been pure, we would never tire with the Dhikr of Allaah.
In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight - perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman.
For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.
Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.
Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
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